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A history: Monuments to Courage, a History of Beaver County

mcbooki403p307: How They Brought the Doctor (cont.), A Noted Area and John J. Watson

his anxiety to get on, "I hope to God they are." Horses often died after such trips. Material supplied by Mrs. Bernita Burke of Black Rock, Mr. Shumaker of Garrison and Mrs. Flora Cuddy of Milford. A NOTED AREA AND JOHN J. WATSON On the old stage route from Deseret to Frisco and about 25 miles west and a little north of Black Rock, there used to be a station called Ibex. The word Ibex means a species of wild goat. We may surmise that the place received its name because this animal existed there at one time. Today, that area is one of the few places in Utah where antelope are found. The mountain range there is called "Confucius." For 30 years John J. Watson lived alone at Ibex. His chief interest there was his cattle. One time J. C. Smith and John Barton called to see him, and he was gone. Mr. Smith remembered that the old gentleman kept a diary, so he went into the house and found it. A notation he had made the day before was that he had filled the barrels with water and on the morrow he would go and water his cattle. They located him at the place where he designated in his diary that he was going. Mr. Watson was also deeply interested in the fossils found there. The area where he lived, according to J. C. Smith of Milford and W. R. Stokes, assistant professor of geology at the University of Utah, is the most noted area in North America for the collection of creatures which lived in the Cambrian period. The Cambrian period is the earliest period in which creatures are well represented in rocks. In other words, the fossils found there were among the first creatures to inhabit the earth. Professor Stokes says that geologists estimate that the fossils and their enclosing rocks were deposited some 450 million years ago. They are sea-living creatures and this fact leads to the belief that this area was submerged beneath an extensive sea in part of the Cambrian period. Since the creatures lived and died many millions of years ago,

his anxiety to get on, "I hope to God they are." Horses often died after such trips. Material supplied by Mrs. Bernita Burke of Black Rock, Mr. Shumaker of Garrison and Mrs. Flora Cuddy of Milford. A NOTED AREA AND JOHN J. WATSON On the old stage route from Deseret to Frisco and about 25 miles west and a little north of Black Rock, there used to be a station called Ibex. The word Ibex means a species of wild goat. We may surmise that the place received its name because this animal existed there at one time. Today, that area is one of the few places in Utah where antelope are found. The mountain range there is called "Confucius." For 30 years John J. Watson lived alone at Ibex. His chief interest there was his cattle. One time J. C. Smith and John Barton called to see him, and he was gone. Mr. Smith remembered that the old gentleman kept a diary, so he went into the house and found it. A notation he had made the day before was that he had filled the barrels with water and on the morrow he would go and water his cattle. They located him at the place where he designated in his diary that he was going. Mr. Watson was also deeply interested in the fossils found there. The area where he lived, according to J. C. Smith of Milford and W. R. Stokes, assistant professor of geology at the University of Utah, is the most noted area in North America for the collection of creatures which lived in the Cambrian period. The Cambrian period is the earliest period in which creatures are well represented in rocks. In other words, the fossils found there were among the first creatures to inhabit the earth. Professor Stokes says that geologists estimate that the fossils and their enclosing rocks were deposited some 450 million years ago. They are sea-living creatures and this fact leads to the belief that this area was submerged beneath an extensive sea in part of the Cambrian period. Since the creatures lived and died many millions of years ago,